A GOOD EXAMPLE.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 8, Issue 28, 5 April 1907, Page 3

A GOOD EXAMPLE.

Beneffletal Inffiuojioo o< Good Wotara in the Elders Upon the , T , Young, One person doing right under adverse circumstances will accomplish more than many treatises about what is right. The census has never been taken of lovely old folks. Most of us, if we have not such a one in our own house now, have in our memory such a saint, says the Detroit Free Press. We went to those old people with all our troubles. They were perpetual evangelists; by their soothing words, by their hopefulness of spirit an inexpressible help. I cannot see how Heaven could make them any lovelier than they are, or were. But there are exceptions. There is a daughter in that family whose father is impatient and the mother querulous. The passage of many years does not always improve the disposition, and there are a great many disagreeable old folks. Some of them forget that they were ever young themselves, and they become untidy in their habits, and wonder how, when their asthma or rheumatism is so bad, other people can laugh or sing and go on as they do. The daughter in that family bears all their peevishness and unreasonable behavior without answering back or making any kind of complaint. If you ask her what her five talents are, or her one talent is, she would answer that she has no talent at all. Greatly mistaken is she. Her one talent is to forbear and tre-at the childishness of the old, as well as the childishness of the young. She is no musician, and besides there may not be a piano in the house; she oannot skillfully awing a croquet mallet or golf stiok; indeed, she seems shut up to see what ehe can do with a ladle and a broom and a brush and other household implements.